CVE-2016-7988
Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—
Severity7.5High · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability0.60 %higher than 48% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, absence of permissions on the BroadcastReceiver responsible for handling the com.[Samsung].android.intent.action.SET_WIFI intent leads to unsolicited configuration messages being handled by wifi-service.jar within the Android Framework, a subset of SVE-2016-6542.
CVSS
- Base score
- 7.5
- Version
- 3.0
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 0.60 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 48
- Score date
- 10/23/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- CWE-275, CWE-388
References
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